Maia Evrona
@maiaevrona.bsky.social
Poet, prose writer, translator of #Yiddish poetry, tanguera, Leonard Cohen enthusiast. #NEAarts fellow
"From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch; The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler" out now from White Goat Press
www.maiaevrona.com
"From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch; The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler" out now from White Goat Press
www.maiaevrona.com
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Maia Evrona
@maiaevrona.bsky.social
· Jul 31
Ukraine in the words of a murdered Yiddish poet
In June, a book festival in Kyiv featured a discussion titled “Yiddish as a Ukrainian Language”
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My small contribution to writing on Ukraine, published thanks to the @forward.com At the end you can also read my translation of Dovid Hofshteyn’s poem “Ukraine”
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I am impressed by how many Jewish holidays that woman at UCL managed to cram into one blood libel: pancakes cooked with blood of gentiles for feast of tabernacles. It was like one of those Jewish food supermarket aisles with latkes, hamentashen and yortsayt candles…
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I am impressed by how many Jewish holidays that woman at UCL managed to cram into one blood libel: pancakes cooked with blood of gentiles for feast of tabernacles. It was like one of those Jewish food supermarket aisles with latkes, hamentashen and yortsayt candles…
What is in large part so demoralizing about this is not just how inappropriately men in positions of power behave but how profoundly stupid these men often are. This idiot was the president of Harvard.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
What is in large part so demoralizing about this is not just how inappropriately men in positions of power behave but how profoundly stupid these men often are. This idiot was the president of Harvard.
I don’t know if forgotten is the word I would choose here. They were more just completely ignored…
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide's Oldest Victims?
A new exhibition at London's Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I don’t know if forgotten is the word I would choose here. They were more just completely ignored…
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here.
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
“The Nobel Prize is fitting, if anything: Alfred Nobel established the prize out of guilt as a 'death merchant,' and now our greatest novelist of decay and destruction has been given the dynamite money.”
Evan Grillon on Krasznahorkai
clereviewofbooks.com/laszlo-krasz...
Evan Grillon on Krasznahorkai
clereviewofbooks.com/laszlo-krasz...
Tiny Apocalypses: On László Krasznahorkai's "Herscht 07769" - Cleveland Review of Books
His books have prophesied dooms big and small for forty years now, much to the annoyance of our century's chummy optimists and milquetoast novelists obsessed with their own private misery and campus p...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here.
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
An article in Swedish about my residency here in Gothenburg, along with information on an event later in the month.
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goteborg.se/wps/portal/e...
Författarresidens: Maia Evrona på Frölunda bibliotek
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November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
An article in Swedish about my residency here in Gothenburg, along with information on an event later in the month.
goteborg.se/wps/portal/e...
goteborg.se/wps/portal/e...
Have all the billionaires left New York yet?
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Have all the billionaires left New York yet?
First impression of Gothenburg: Everyone knows they are going to be wet, and they have accepted that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
First impression of Gothenburg: Everyone knows they are going to be wet, and they have accepted that.
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This is how the ostensibly philosemitic wing of the party is going to reconcile itself with the openly antisemitic wing. “We tried to help you, we really did, but you wouldn’t let us.”
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is how the ostensibly philosemitic wing of the party is going to reconcile itself with the openly antisemitic wing. “We tried to help you, we really did, but you wouldn’t let us.”
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There's extensive evidence that just giving poor people money is very effective public policy. The moral panic over what ppl buy with SNAP is about sadism and entitlement. the wealthy enjoy policing and tormenting those they see as their inferiors. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/republican...
Republicans Want Poor People to Suffer
GOP policy on poverty is driven by sadism
www.everythingishorrible.net
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
There's extensive evidence that just giving poor people money is very effective public policy. The moral panic over what ppl buy with SNAP is about sadism and entitlement. the wealthy enjoy policing and tormenting those they see as their inferiors. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/republican...
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Seven years ago today, 11 Jewish people were murdered at the Tree of Life Congregation, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In their names, we will continue to stand up against hate, bigotry and the rise in antisemitism taking place around the country. May their memories be for a blessing.
October 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Seven years ago today, 11 Jewish people were murdered at the Tree of Life Congregation, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In their names, we will continue to stand up against hate, bigotry and the rise in antisemitism taking place around the country. May their memories be for a blessing.
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ALL 50 STATES HAVE PARTICIPATED IN #NOKINGS
My heart is VERY happy. This is JUST the beginning of our peaceful protests against the Authoritarian-In-Charge!
My heart is VERY happy. This is JUST the beginning of our peaceful protests against the Authoritarian-In-Charge!
October 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ALL 50 STATES HAVE PARTICIPATED IN #NOKINGS
My heart is VERY happy. This is JUST the beginning of our peaceful protests against the Authoritarian-In-Charge!
My heart is VERY happy. This is JUST the beginning of our peaceful protests against the Authoritarian-In-Charge!
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MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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I have some bad news for Cuomo about why New York City exists.
“It was a mistake to put so many migrants in New York City.” - Cuomo
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I have some bad news for Cuomo about why New York City exists.
I feel kind of like I missed out on Diane Keaton because growing up as a millennial (sorry), it was hard to move past her support for Woody Allen.
It's frustrating that men take fun women away from us in that way too...
It's frustrating that men take fun women away from us in that way too...
October 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I feel kind of like I missed out on Diane Keaton because growing up as a millennial (sorry), it was hard to move past her support for Woody Allen.
It's frustrating that men take fun women away from us in that way too...
It's frustrating that men take fun women away from us in that way too...
So Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl is bad, but bankrolling the president of Argentina's narcissistic rock concert is okay?!?! Both are in Spanish!
October 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
So Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl is bad, but bankrolling the president of Argentina's narcissistic rock concert is okay?!?! Both are in Spanish!
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No Kings.
Yes Frogs.
Ribbit.
Yes Frogs.
Ribbit.
October 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
No Kings.
Yes Frogs.
Ribbit.
Yes Frogs.
Ribbit.
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We’re clearly in a cultural moment when any attempt to make public figures who committed sexual violence pay a price for their crimes has disappeared. When Woody Allen dies, the obituaries will all talk about “Annie Hall,” and the abuse will appear in an aside at the end of the article, if at all.
“I made movies for an audience of one, Diane Keaton,” Woody Allen wrote in a remembrance on Sunday. She was Allen’s creative muse as well as his romantic partner and eventually, after their split, a trusted friend — one that remained loyal to him amid the abuse allegations he faced.
Woody Allen Remembers the ‘Magical’ Diane Keaton
“I made movies for an audience of one, Diane Keaton,” Allen wrote in a remembrance that reflected on the breadth of their relationship.
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October 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We’re clearly in a cultural moment when any attempt to make public figures who committed sexual violence pay a price for their crimes has disappeared. When Woody Allen dies, the obituaries will all talk about “Annie Hall,” and the abuse will appear in an aside at the end of the article, if at all.
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a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
Susan Abulhawa has also called Zelenskyy a "Nazi promoting zionist" and "far more dangerous than Putin." I always cringe when I see people share anything from her. I find it especially frustrating when I see people characterize any criticism of her as anti-Palestinian censorship.
This is not a random person, but the writer of "Mornings in Jenin," the most widely-read Palestinian novel of all time.
This person is opining on Jewish history without knowing anything about it. None of this is true about the concept of Jewish peoplehood.
This person is opining on Jewish history without knowing anything about it. None of this is true about the concept of Jewish peoplehood.
October 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Susan Abulhawa has also called Zelenskyy a "Nazi promoting zionist" and "far more dangerous than Putin." I always cringe when I see people share anything from her. I find it especially frustrating when I see people characterize any criticism of her as anti-Palestinian censorship.
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This quote is very obviously fake, has been going around for months, and now is being touted as real with MEMO's approval.
October 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This quote is very obviously fake, has been going around for months, and now is being touted as real with MEMO's approval.